AIRPORT EYES NEARBY LAND MOVE PROMPTED BY JET THAT OVERSHOT RUNWAY.Byline: Katie Cooper Staff Writer BURBANK - The City Council on Tuesday signed off on a plan by Burbank Airport officials to purchase land across the street from the east-west runway for an expanded crash safety zone. The move to purchase the two parcels of land, occupied by a gas station and a mini-mall, was prompted by an incident last year involving an inbound jet that overshot overshot protruding. overshot fetlock see knuckling over. overshot jaw See brachygnathia. Called also parrot mouth. its landing. The Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. 737 returning from Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. broke through the runway's safety barriers and came to rest near the Chevron station on Hollywood Way, injuring six passengers. Following the incident, the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control recommended that the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority buy out the landowners and demolish de·mol·ish tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es 1. To tear down completely; raze. 2. To do away with completely; put an end to. 3. the structures to improve the margin of safety at the end of the runway. The FAA has indicated a willingness to fund the acquisitions, said airport spokesman Victor Gill. But before proceeding, the Airport Authority was required by state law to seek permission from the city to expand its land holdings. The council backed the safety measures safety measures, n.pl actions (e.g., use of glasses, face masks) taken to protect patients and office personnel from such known hazards as particles and aerosols from high-speed rotary instruments, mercury vapor, radiation exposure, anesthetic and , citing the potential dangers of a gas station in the path of an out-of-control aircraft. ``My biggest question after the accident was, who put the gas station there?'' said Councilwoman Stacey Murphy. ``It's a stupid use for the end of a runway.'' Some residents complained that the measures would do nothing to aid drivers on Hollywood Way if an aircraft again plowed through the safety barriers. Others described the plan as a thinly disguised effort to expand the airport's operations. But city staffers said the airport has no authority to make changes to Hollywood Way. Nor could the airport develop the parcels once it has acquired them, officials said. Gill said that the Airport Authority can now proceed with making a good-faith offer to the property owners. If those offers are rejected, the authority could still acquire the parcels under eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in , a process that could take up to three years. |
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